But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study by researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Stockholm suggests that this is an ongoing evolution ...

Male fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, according to research published yesterday (April 20) in Current Biology. The study also found that when fruit flies are denied sex, they consume more alcohol than ...

How Fruit Flies Flit Between Courtship and Aggression to Fight for Mates Feb. 13, 2025 — Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey ...

They genetically engineered male flies to produce the insecticidal proteins in their reproductive tracts (TMT males). The researchers investigated how the expression of toxic proteins affected the ...

In the United States, more than 11% of men under the age of 49 are infertile. While the causes are varied and range from ...

85, No. 1, Mar., 2002 Effects of Post-Teneral Nutrition on Rep... To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they ...

Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.

The female receives a dead insect as a gift from the male during mating. The gift provides the female with the necessary protein to produce eggs. If the male arrives empty-handed, he is rejected.

In these flies, courtship is based on an exchange of food. Before mating, the male offers a gift to the female, usually a dead insect. This offering is crucial for reproduction, as females ...

In turn, the parasitic flies have improved in their ability to find the location of male crickets for the larvae to incubate and develop in –– leading to the decline of crickets that do not ...